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All this comes out about basketball but not football. What da hell mane
NCAA basketball has frick you money. NCAA football has money that says frick you to the frick you money NCAA basketball has.

I am certain there is a lot of cheating in football, but I don't think it's nearly as pervasive or as problematic as in basketball for a couple of reasons:
- It's a lot harder to predict just how good a prospect is going to be in football. The maturation and development cycle is much longer, and with some exceptions (guys like Clowney or Reggie Bush), the great majority of 4 and even 5 star guys aren't going to be exceptional in the first year or two
- Obviously, roster size - harder to spread out $$ over an 85 man roster than a 12 man roster
- Individual impact on the game: no one player, with some very very rare exceptions (like Cam Newton), can dominate a game in football like a great player can in basketball
- Recruiting is pretty much entirely divorced from high school programs at this point in basketball. The agents/runners/"advisors" run the show; that's not the case at all in football where the high school programs and coaches still run the show. I think that serves as a big buffer against cheating.

What I think happens in college football is a lot of low-level, minor cheating (a few hundred here and there, free meals, academic skating, etc.), but I don't think the systemic, program-sanctioned cheating that has been pervasive in high end college basketball since forever is there, for the most part, in college football. And when programs do start to play that game (like Ole Miss a few years ago) it is obvious to everyone and pretty flagrant.